"Exhibitions" Blogs & Blog Posts

Few pieces of art have managed to capture my recent attention and imagination quite like Larnie and Bodil Fox's kinetic sound sculptures. Their latest exhibition, showing at NY2CA Gallery in Benicia, CA, is a carnivalesque contraption of ingenuity an...

What percentage of Neanderthal are you? Soon, you will be able to go face to face with your closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals. Based on new research, the exhibition gives you a new and nuanced look at the Neanderthals, their lives and their...

Seven Roman altars at the Great North Museum: Hancock now feature animations projected directly onto the stone surfaceCredit: Tyne and Wear MuseumsHistorians often tell us to try and visualize the past as a colourful place – whether it be the brigh...

From Cecil Daily:From the heroines of ancient myth to the female trailblazers of the modern era, centuries of independent and rebellious women have been trivialized or condemned through the degrading myths and gendered stereotypes perpetuated in prin...

According to archaeologists, the world's oldest peace treaty disproves the widespread notion that in antiquity, peace was not brought about by negotiations, but always by humiliating those who had lost. "More than 3,200 years ago, Egyptians and Hitti...

Early depictions of the gorgon Medusa - a monster from Greek mythology - show an ugly, winged woman with serpents entwined in her hair, bulging eyes, a wide grin, a protruding tongue, and boar tusks, among other frightening features. According to the...

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of an early 5th-century B.C. bronze appliqué depicting the Etruscan Sun God Usil. Appliqué depicting the Sun God Usil, Etruscan, 500 - 475 B.C. Italy, Vulci. Bronze. H: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.) [C...